Today’s big ObamaCare lie: Sebelius claims she never set a goal of seven million sign-ups

posted at 4:41 pm on February 25, 2014 by Allahpundit

Via CNS and BuzzFeed, an egregious lie even by the administration’s usual standards for ObamaCare, which is saying something. In fact, this lie, that Sebelius herself never embraced the seven-million figure she’s now trying to pawn off on CBO, was exposed nearly two months ago by one of the biggest papers in the country — and here she is, two months later, still pushing it to try to cover her ass. Quote:

Here’s Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaking to reporters last June: “We’re hopeful that 7 million is a realistic target.”

And here she is on Sept. 30, in an interview with NBC News: “I think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of March 2014.”

The memo offered an estimate of 7,066,000, drawing both on CBO’s estimate and the experience of the universal health plan in Massachusetts, Medicare Part D “and conversations with employers, issuers and states.” It projected that enrollment would be 3.3 million by the end of December.

WaPo gave her just two Pinocchios out of four for distancing herself from the “seven million” figure back in January even though she (a) had adopted that number months earlier and (b) already was (and still is) exaggerating the total number of O-Care sign-ups by refusing to say how many are facing cancellation due to not having paid their first month’s premium. By most estimates, that number is in the ballpark of 20 percent. If that trend continues all the way to the March 31st deadline, hitting the magic “seven million” number would mean that the official numbers were padded with more than a million busted enrollments.

Three clips for you, in order: Today’s big lie; Sebelius telling NBC on September 30th of last year that seven million is the target; and then, just for fun, Jay Carney trying to spin his way out of this clusterfark last month. Note that September 30, 2013 was literally the eve of ObamaCare’s launch. Up until the very last minute, when she knew (or certainly should have known) that the website was a disaster in the making and would be hobbled for weeks or months, she passed on an easy opportunity to set expectations for enrollment much lower. Sheesh.

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The first time was tragedy in Benghazi, and now the administration is reduced to self-parody.

They should just go all in, and send Susan Rice out to make this claim. They could do it on all the Sunday talk shows but I say just cut out the middle-man and have her go on SNL and make the claim there.

Are you going to believe what you saw and heard her say earlier or what she says now? This open and transparent administration is true example of innocence and virtue in a dark world … they are a shining light of truth … oops sorry, just choked on my own vomit!

Seven million was always the “goal.” She’s taking the Groupon approach (after they declared Alexander Hamilton our greatest President). We’ll just have to agree to disagree- even though I’ve been exposed a complete idiot.

Just imagine what their meetings and conversations are about at the top levels of the administration.
It all has to be about making up lies to cover up lies about their lies.
And then they must by lying to each other.
Imagine how many of them have silently listened to Obama and thought, “He is lying again. All he does is lie. And the scary thing is he really believes that this lie now over rules the truth or the lie he told before”.

It must be a very poisoned, border line nuts White House when everything they do is based on lies.

I’m starting to develop kind of a warm spot in my heart for Jay Carney. Unflinching adherence to the principle of winning at any cost. Not many people would be able to overcome embarrassment like that. Truly an useful idiot, but, he’ll come out of this with a financial gig somewhere that sets him up for life.

Doesn’t matter what happened with the rollout or the appearance of lies to you rethuglicans. When this thing is streamlined, we get the website ironed out and people aren’t paying much more than double their old premiums, folks are going to love Obamacare and you’ll never win another election at the state or national levels.

And this just shows once more what a useless “chief executive” Barry is. He won’t fire her because – as he told O’Reilly – he wants to keep the team intact so as not to create any disruption or some such nonsense. And firing her would just be admitting that his healthcare wet dream is a cluster…

The entire Obama experience has been nothing but one lie based upon another lie,, perpetrated by yet another lie, all coming from an empty suit whose entire persona is nothing but one big huge fabricated lie…from the circumstances of his birth and all points in between. And the feeble brained “American Idol” voting public has bought them all…hook, line and sinker… It is all unfolding just as Biblical Prophecy has said it would, too. That being said, all we can do is to batten down our hatches, dig in, arm up, and prepare for the coming collapse and civil war that is on the near horizon. Thanks a lot, libiots…

If some industrious social scientist wanted to see what would happen by crossing the effects of The Peter Principle with Affirmative Action they’d have a Nobel Prize winning example with anyone in this Administration.

These Obamabot Clowns just continue telling whoppers day after day, week after week. And the Lame Stream Manure Spreading Multi-media Presstitutes simply nod like bobble-headed dolls while regurgitating this total absolute NONSENSE.

Don’t you dimwits need 350 million to be a success? Not to mention complete your socialist paradise. 4 million? 7 million? Whatever you pull out of your behinds isn’t worth spit. It’s a laughable failure that fewer and fewer people (even your pitiful trogs) want, can afford or trust.